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Title: The Metafont Book by Donald E. Knuth ISBN: 0-201-13444-6 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 01 January, 1986 Format: Spiral-bound Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Well, if you care about archaic technology
Comment: Once upon a time, MF represented the best hope for outline font technology. Then came PostScript, Type 1 fonts, ATM and it became moot. It's a nice graphic programming language and for some mathematically-derived designs it's easier to work with than is, say, Fontographer or Fontlab, but the output is mired in the bitmap world (valiant MF2PS efforts notwithstanding).
Serious students of MF will also need the Computer Modern Typefaces book. And possibly a healthy dose of liquor. But as I said, the language is actually kind of nice (and MF can be used as a simple algebraic calculator if you're so inclined).
Rating: 4
Summary: It's really paperbound
Comment: Most of the people who order this book will already know quite a bit about it, so I won't say much about the book itself. I will point out, though, that it is softcover, not hardcover. (The book linked to by the "softcover" link is spiral bound.) On the other hand, I haven't succeeded in locating any copies of the "real" hardcover edition.
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Title: TeXbook by Donald E. Knuth ISBN: 0201134489 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 01 January, 1984 List Price(USD): $42.95 |
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Title: The Advanced Texbook by David S. Salomon ISBN: 0387945563 Publisher: Springer Verlag Pub. Date: December, 1995 List Price(USD): $59.95 |
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Title: The Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-3 Boxed Set by Donald E. Knuth ISBN: 0201485419 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $164.99 |
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Title: Computers & Typesetting, Volume D : Metafont: The Program by Donald E. Knuth ISBN: 0201134381 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 01 January, 1986 List Price(USD): $54.95 |
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Title: Computers & Typesetting, Volume B: TeX: The Program by Donald E. Knuth ISBN: 0201134373 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 01 January, 1986 List Price(USD): $54.95 |
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